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The Void Captain's Tale

Norman Spinrad

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#2384 of 8,085 books · #646 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1983) and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1984).

Welcome aboard the sex-drive void ship . . . Captain Genro commands the giant spaceship Dragon Zephyr - on board are ten thousand passengers in electrocoma, a smaller number of conscious passengers eagerly utilising the ship's dream chambers - and a Pilot. In the context of space travel, the Pilot is merely a biological component in the machine. Always a woman, her function is to launch the ship into the Jump by means of a cosmic orgasm. She is a pariah, shunned by all. Void Captain Genro should never even have spoken to his Pilot, let alone tried to embark on a relationship with her. When he did so, the result was every space traveller's nightmare. A Blind Jump into the Void . . .

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Publisher
Timescape Books
ISBN-13
9780575117259
Topics
Space travelSexuality and desireForbidden relationship

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